Is bipartisan support- - i.e. Republican support- - coming for trains? What do you think?

Today, former Republican Governor of Wisconsin Tommy Thompson said on Wisconsin Public Radio "I am very much in favor of developing high speed rail between Milwaukee and Madison."

Current Tea Party leader and Republican Governor Scott Walker in/famously rejected federal financing for that train route in 2010. Moderate and pro-train Republicans like Tommy Thompson then jumped ship and became anti-train.

But there's a move across America for mainstream Republicans to recapture the Party, and hopefully come together with Democrats on economic issues such as trains. Has that started to happen? What do you think?

Record ridership. Young people waiting in line to board train in Colorado.

This was the year every online expert endorsed multi-media in online courses.

Online courses are on their way to being 50% of how we learn in this century, from Kindergarten (before actually) through the rest of our lives. And it's not just about education. Multi-media now established as a principal way we communicate, with each other, in marketing, in our personal lives.

In 1913 movies made the same shift. Before 1913 movies were just stage plays on film. In 1913 the first action movies were made. Today, as 100 years ago, we make a big leap forward in the new century.